Being an artist is a very long game. It is not a 10-year game. I hope I'll be around making art when I'm 80

One cannot set out to make a work that's spiritual. What is a contemporary iconography for the spiritual? Is it some fuzzy space?

A work will only have deep resonance if the kind of darkness I can generate is something that is resident in me already

Red, of course, is the colour of the interior of our bodies. In a way it's inside out, red.

The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement as a viewer, there is no story.

All ideas grow out of other ideas

Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.

If you get a bad review, you take that in your stride.

I think I understand something about space. I think the job of a sculptor is spatial as much as it is to do with form.

One doesn't make art for other people, even though I am very concerned with the viewer

That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation.

You cannot identify an enemy without becoming one.

If there's anything worse in this world than a bad batch of babi guling, it's hindsight.

Heaven's the place where all the dogs you've ever loved come to greet you.

The serious people have gone, I build my team again and again I just the un-sirious people if this is sirious let's see a bus which can be handled in the air by the weakest person on the Earth.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

When we receive God's gift of life by relying on Christ, we find that God comes to act with us as we rely on him in our actions.

I always enjoyed the kids, but I didn't enjoy the bureaucracy of the educational system.

She's you, without your conscience, or your feelings. She's you without your humanity." "You're saying she's a mood swing?" He shrugged. "Or maybe you're her mood swing." "Don't even joke about that.

Casting a film, you can have the greatest actors in a film and it doesn't work. It's a combination of all of the elements.

No virtue fades out of mankind. Not over-hopeful by inborn temperament, cautious by long experience, I yet never despair of human virtue.